<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 6/19/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Peter Wright</b> <<a href="mailto:pete@nomadlogic.org">pete@nomadlogic.org</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br>> Peter Wright writes:<br>><br>>> I like that idea, although I personally would like to see specific<br>>> situations where perl, for example, was used as a tool to solve a<br>>> problem<br>>> (including anaylsis, which modules where used etc.).
<br>><br>> I think it highly depends on the target audience.<br>><br>><br>>> I think for the long term it's the process an admin goes through more<br>>> than<br>>> the specifics of the lang itself.
<br>><br>> This is why I thought of showing the basics on several, rather than one.<br>> Many admins may learn let's say perl and try to do everything with it.<br>> Just<br>> because it is the only tool they know off.
<br>><br>> By showing, mostly new, admins the different tools they can use perhaps<br>> they<br>> will better able to decide what they need to use for a particular problem.<br>><br>> As an example:<br>> Say an admin has some data he needs to get from a log file. If all he
<br>> knows<br>> of is perl he may try and learn how to read a file from perl or do<br>> re-direction.. then will have to figure out how to parse, etc... whereas<br>> the<br>> 'cut' utility may be all he needs. If he doesn't know it exists then he
<br>> will<br>> be stuck trying to use the only tool he does know.<br>><br>> Without knowing target audience level it's kind of hard to tell which<br>> approach may be better. However I think covering examples in several
<br>> approaches in a sort of recipies way, may perhaps help more people. They<br>> basically can come out of the session with specific things to try.<br>><br>><br><br><br>yea i guess you are correct, i was assuming we would be addressing a
<br>higher level audience. maybe not.<br><br>-pete</blockquote><div><br>Please don't leave out Junior Systems Admins, or Admins from windows world, where there's no 'cut' utility.</div><br></div><br><br clear="all"><br>
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